# twine
## English
### Alternative forms

* twyne (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /twaɪn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).

#### Noun

twine (countable and uncountable, plural twines)
* A twist; a convolution.
** 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 11:Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
* A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
** 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, pages 120–121:The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted […]
* The act of twining or winding round.
** 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 16:The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
* Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
** 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
    The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]

##### Coordinate terms

* (threads or strands twisted together): sinew

##### Derived terms

* baler twine
* sea twine
* settler's twine
* twine reeler

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).

#### Verb

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)
* (transitive) To weave together.
* (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
** c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]
** 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 10, in The Glass Key‎, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 199:She was twining her fingers together.
* (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
** 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto III:“Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […] ”
* (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
** 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck‎:Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.
* (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
** 1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa‎:As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline:
* (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
    Many plants twine.
* (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
** 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander:dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
* (obsolete) To change the direction of.
** 1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered‎, published 1581, Book 20, Stanza 38:For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed, He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,
* (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
** 1646, Richard Crashaw, M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope‎, lines 29–30:As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.

##### Derived terms

* entwine
* intertwine

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)
* Alternative form of twin (“to separate”)

## Yola
### Numeral

twine
* Alternative form of twye

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73